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To: Daniel Joo who wrote (59208)	5/13/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Early signs appear of slowing Internet growth This is an Infoworld article with links to sources. An excerpt: <Quarterman told me via e-mail that, "MIDS has been analyzing the Network Wizards Internet growth data for years, looking for inflections in Internet growth. We have finally found one. I don't think we are near real host saturation yet, on a global level, but slowing from a factor of nearly 2 per year to a factor of 1.6 per year should make a big difference in ISP capacity deployment, policy planning, and elsewhere." For analysis of Internet hosts, see MIDS' graphs. "Elsewhere" should include the plans of those in Internet commerce.> They claim in the US there is now one host per ten users! (27 million hosts). That's a startling number. (It appears they are referring to world wide users). What does this mean for server growth? infoworld.com